Publication: Fantasy, Number 2

Publication: Fantasy, Number 2Publication Record # 311071 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: T. Stanhope Sprigg
Date: 1939-03-00
Publisher: George Newnes
Price:
1/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
Pages: 132
Format:
pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Fantasy, Number 2 by Serge Drigin [as by S. R. Drigin]
Notes:
- No 2.
- Subtitled "Thrilling Science Fiction" on the cover and "A Magazine of Thrilling Science-Fiction" on the contents page.
- Contents page and spine state "1939" with no month given.
- Page numbers run 1-128.
- Trimmed edges.
- The Editor is not credited.
- Cover art is credited to "S. R. Drigin"; the artwork is signed "S. Drigin."
- Interior art is not credited by individual story, but the contents page states "Illustrations by S. R. Drigin, G. Blow, and H. E. Turner."
- Story art for "Winged Terror" on page 17 is signed "S. Drigin"; that on pages 2-3 shows no signature.
- Story art for "Valley of Doom" on page 31 is signed "GWB."
- Story art for "People of the Deep" on page 43 is signed "S.D."
- Artwork for "Terminal in Space" on page 53 is signed "Turner." A small unsigned diagram also appears on page 57.
- Story art for "The Trojan Beam" on pages 60-61 and 67 is signed "S. Drigin."
- Story art for "Vampire from the Void" on page 79 is signed "GWB."
- Story art for "Discovery of Nil" on page 93 is signed "Geo W Blow." The story title is given thus at thet start of the story and on the page headers, but as "The Discovery of Nil" on the contents page.
- Story art for "Climatica" on page 111 is signed "S. Drigin"; that on page 100 shows no signature.
- "What Is Your Theory?" solicits reader theories on the ending of "Winged Terror," offering half a guinea to the winning entry.
- "But This Is Fact—: A Ship That Disappeared" is an extract from the Evening Standard, 12 May 1938.
- "The Question Space-Ships May Answer: Is There Life on the Planets?" is from a broadcast address by Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, on 04 February 1939.
- "Science Marches On" consists of several current news items.
- "Stranger Than Fiction" presents more current news items.
- "Contributors to 'Fantasy'" includes short profiles of most of the authors in this issue (omitting only Hendred and Burton).
- "The Fact Behind the Fantasy" includes two short articles: "Harnessing the Tides" (Daily Telegraph, 18 January 1939) and "Fog Dispersal" (Evening Standard, 21 January 1939).
- "Fantasy's Critical Commentary" is a letters column.

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Editor Title: Fantasy, Number 2 • [Fantasy] • (1939) • edited by T. Stanhope Sprigg

Contents (view Concise Listing)

2 • Winged Terror • (1931) • novella by G. R. Malloch (variant of Moth)
2 • Winged Terror • interior artwork by Serge Drigin [as by S. R. Drigin]
30 • What Is Your Theory? • essay by uncredited
31 • Valley of Doom • novelette by Halliday Sutherland
31 • Valley of Doom • interior artwork by Geo. W. Blow [as by G. Blow]
43 • People of the Deep • short story by Paul Hendred
43 • People of the Deep • interior artwork by Serge Drigin [as by S. R. Drigin]
52 • But This Is Fact—: A Ship That Disappeared • essay by uncredited
53 • Terminal in Space • essay by Willy Ley
53 • Terminal in Space • interior artwork by Harry Turner [as by H. E. Turner]
59 • The Question Space-Ships May Answer: Is There Life on the Planets? • essay by Dr. Barnes
60 • The Trojan Beam • novelette by John Wyndham [as by John Beynon]
60 • The Trojan Beam • interior artwork by Serge Drigin [as by S. R. Drigin]
77 • Science Marches On • essay by uncredited
78 • Stranger Than Fiction (Fantasy, Number 2) • essay by uncredited
79 • Vampire from the Void • novelette by Eric Frank Russell
79 • Vampire from the Void • interior artwork by Geo. W. Blow [as by G. Blow]
92 • Contributors to "Fantasy" (Fantasy, Number 2) • essay by uncredited
93 • Discovery of Nil • short story by A. E. Burton
93 • Discovery of Nil • interior artwork by Geo. W. Blow [as by G. Blow]
99 • A Gift from Nil to Ut? • essay by uncredited
100 • Climatica • novelette by John Russell Fearn
100 • Climatica • interior artwork by Serge Drigin [as by S. R. Drigin]
122 • The Fact Behind the Fantasy • essay by uncredited
125 • Fantasy's Critical Commentary (Fantasy, Number 2) • essay by various
125 • Letter (Fantasy, Number 2): Two Sequels Wanted • essay by Alan Hunter [as by Alan J. Hunter]
126 • Letter (Fantasy, Number 2): Cover Critic—I • essay by Eric C. Williams
126 • Letter (Fantasy, Number 2): More Thrilling Stories • essay by Don J. Doughty [as by D. J. Doughty]
127 • Letter (Fantasy, Number 2): Pleasant Surprise • essay by Eric Frank Russell [as by Eric F. Russell]
128 • Letter (Fantasy, Number 2): Deserving Case? • essay by John Russell Fearn

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Publication: Fantasy, Number 2

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